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Knowledge is Speed: Hendrick Motorsports Inc.'s Jim Wall
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There is a small metal part in a race car enginea pickup frame, to be precisethat supports a coil of wires in the distributor. If this part breaks and the wires come loose, the ignition fails, the engine stops and the race is lost. The race-car driver does not win the prize money or get face time on national television, and the sponsors who pay millions of dollars to see their logos flash around the track a few hundred times go home deeply unhappy. Last May, pickup frames started breaking in engines made by Hendrick Motorsports Inc., one of the largest and most successful companies competing on the NASCAR circuit.
"When the first one broke, out at the California Speedway at Fontana on May 2, we didn't panic, because we had used these parts for years," says chief engineer Jim Wall, standing in the middle of a spotless workroom at Hendrick's 70-plus acre campus in Charlotte, N.C. "But the next race, at Richmond, two broke in practice, and all of a sudden it was, 'Oh man, we've got a problem.'"
The longest race of the 10-month NASCAR season, the Coca-Cola 600, was next on the schedule, giving Wall less than three weeks to redesign and manufacture a new part that would not fail under the stress of racing conditionsand over all of those 600 miles. "We went from our CAD (computer-aided design) library to steel in two days," he says.
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It hardly matters how quickly one can go from zero to 160 if you're engine craps out before the finish lineand thanks to a faulty part, Hendrick's NASCAR racing engines had been doing just that in early May. Three weeks later, Jim Wall's IT team had reverse-engineered and prototyped a replacement part that led to two checkered flags.
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May 6A pickup frame fails in the engine of the 48 Nextel Cup Team on May 2 at Fontana, Calif.; the faulty part is found during an engine "tear-down" on May 6.
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May 14A second pickup frame fails in the 10 Nextel Cup Team during practice runs at Richmond.
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May 15Finally, a third pickup frame fails in the 10 Nextel Cup Team during the race at Richmond, this one found during an engine tear-down on May 20. The serial failure is cause for alarm.
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May 21Wall and his team at Hendrick gather all component prints and information the pickup frame vendor will share.
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May 22Used CAD software, in connection with the UGS product lifecycle database, to reverse-engineer and improve the pickup frame.
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May 24First new pickup frame prototype produced on computer numerically controlled machine with production run of about 25 parts.
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May 25First prototype tested by dynamometer while production continues. Retrofits with new pickup frame begin on race engines.
May 27Kyle Busch wins his Busch Series race with new pickup frame in place. The next day, Jimmie Johnson wins the Coca-Cola 600, also relying on the new pickup frame.
The real test of the new part would come 24 hours before the big race, at the Carquest 300 at the vast Lowe's Motor Speedway in nearby Concord, N.C. If the new pickup frame failed on the Hendrick entry, there would be no chance to re-engineer it before the main event. But with Wall watching nervously, Hendrick driver Kyle Busch took the checkered flag. By the next day, when Hendrick star Jimmie Johnson won the Coca-Cola 600, Wall had already moved on.
During the race, he says, "The least of my concerns was the distributor pickup frame. I felt like we had addressed that issue."
Hendrick Motorsports runs at the technological forefront of NASCAR, and the guy with his foot to the floor is Jim Wall. The 41-year-old Engineering Group Manager has spent his career at Hendrick, where he has pushed innovations like computer-controlled machining tools and sophisticated design and database software, often pulling competing race teams along in his draft. "Investing in technology is now seen as something you have to do in order to survive," says Jeff Turner, general manager of Hendrick Motorsports. "That's changed a lot since Jim first started talking about it. He is the original visionary of information technology in this sport."
It wasn't always easy for Wall to champion IT at Hendrick. He's had to do more than computerize the processes pioneered by moonshiners and dirt-track racers: Wall also had to create a culture in which information technology strategy is not only valued and understood, but defined by clear business goals. "It took him a while to get the right ears to listen," says Turner. "We were slow to embrace technology because of the evolution of our sport. We went from being a seat-of-the-pants company, buying what we needed from everybody else, to being an information-gathering company that used reverse engineering to make our own stuff."
Initially, Wall says, management "looked at me and saw a dollar sign, because I was costing them money. They wanted to see a connection straight between the checkbook and the stopwatch, and I had to say that it could take years to get all the benefits of new tools."
What management did understand is that speed in NASCAR goes beyond the track. Getting specialized parts in a hurry has always been a challenge, and that's exactly where Wall demonstrated IT could make a difference. NASCAR has an intense schedule that runs from February to November, and each race is a high-stakes, high-visibility test of product quality. Time to market is measured in days. "Time spent on an engine at the track equals a bad weekend," says Wall. "We've got 38 events on the Nextel Cup Series schedule, and everything we do is driven by the race event schedule. They are going to have the show with or without you, and nothing you can do will change that."
So car-builders need to understand their product inside and out. Racing is both a knowledge industry and a manufacturing business, in addition to being a sport. And, at Hendrick, the most important benefit of technology is how it allows engineers and designers to share and deepen product knowledge, letting them quickly tap into the accumulated information of the organization, thus accelerating the design and manufacturing process.
"We are publishing information for ourselves, building a database and making it available to everyone who needs it," says Wall. But that's still just half the equation. "Having it on the screen doesn't do us a damn bit of good," he adds. "It has to go on the race car to mean something."
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Whitish lubricant splashes inside the windows of a computerized, Mini Cooper-sized machine tool that carves and bores metal parts with extreme precision, extruding ribbons of scrap steel or aluminum while it works. NASCAR race cars, including the engines, must be built from certain stock elements that you could find at your local dealership, but everything else can be engineered from scratch. "We buy what we can, and build what we need," says Wall, walking past a row of finished engines.
Hendrick Motorsports, founded in 1984 by Charlotte automobile dealer Rick Hendrick, refurbishes engines over 700 times per season, some for its own drivers and the rest for lease to other NASCAR teams. The shop also serves as a development lab for General Motors, the maker of the Chevrolet cars Hendrick races. But, Turner says, the engine business amounts to just a fraction of the revenues of the profitable, privately held company, which average over $100 million per year. Nor does prize money account for Hendrick's profits: A good season might total $10 to $20 million in prizes for all drivers, while the cost of running a single top NASCAR team is over $15 million per year.
The real money comes from sponsorships, and it is sponsorships that make up almost 80 percent of Hendrick's annual revenue. Big brandsLowe's Home Improvement stores, Kellogg's cereals, Budweiser pay big money (over $15 million for a primary sponsorship, perhaps $1 million for a secondary sponsorship) to slap their names on NASCAR machines and stitch their logos on the drivers' fireproof suits. This is a sport where the championship trophyformerly the Winston Cup, now the Nextel Cupis for rent. Chevrolet, Ford and Dodge also pour tens of millions into the racing teams.
Wall has negotiated secondary sponsorship deals with two of his shop's key tool and software vendors, Haas Automation Inc. and UGS Corp. Hendrick gets the machines and software in exchange for advertising space on the race cars and marketing and promotional exposure for the products. "These relationships are extremely valuable to us because they equip us with engineering and manufacturing tools that help us produce more competitive vehicles," says Wall. "We also have access to some of the top people in these companies for support, training and previews of new technology that is coming out in their products."
The drivers are brands in their own right. ("You might see a rookie driver around the engine shop," says one mechanic. "Until they get their first jet.") Even the cars are anthropomorphized by fans and commentators, called by their numbers, as in, "The No. 48 car ran good at Michigan." Hendrick runs four teams full time on NASCAR's premiere Nextel Cup circuit, including the Lowe's No. 48 car driven by Jimmie Johnson, who has been at or near the top of the points standings all season; the No. 24 DuPont car, driven by three-time points champion Jeff Gordon; veteran Terry Labonte's No. 5 Kellogg's car; and Brian Vickers in the number 25 GMAC car. Kyle Busch will compete in six Nextel races this year in the No. 84 Carquest car.
Nobody is getting their money's worth if their ride is in the shop.
With over 400 employees, including more than 80 in the shop run by the storied engine-builder (and Wall's mentor) Randy Dorton, Hendrick is one of NASCAR's biggest companies. But corporate teams are now the rule in a sport once based in small garages and family compounds. Among the leading full-service shops, with multiple cars and engine-building capacity, are Dale Earnhardt Inc., founded by the late legend and animated by the star power of his son, Dale Jr.; longtime powerhouse Richard Childress Racing; and Penske Racing, the NASCAR venture of the fabled open-wheel racing organization. Roush Racing, one of the largest companies as measured by the number of drivers, gets its engines from another major Ford shop, Robert Yates. Like HMS, each of these shops has come to see IT as a competitive necessity, making Wall's job easier on the one hand (he doesn't have to sell people on the value of IT any longer), but more difficult on the other (he has to work harder to remain ahead of the curve).
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Wall, a self-described "motorhead" while growing up in nearby Concord, started at Hendrick when it was formed in 1984, leaving only to earn bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University. He began pushing for computer-aided design and manufacturing tools in the late eighties, and really got religion at the 1990 International Machine Tools Show, in Chicago. "My head was reeling when I walked out," he says. "There were computers embedded in machines that could do all the things we do. I went to the show to get numbers for a proposal, but I left convinced that we really needed to be using this."
Management was slower to respond. Without a formal IT organization, Wall picked up the slack. He strung cable, set up machines, and harkened back to some experience in grad school to repair the phone system. He even registered Hendrick's Internet domain names when the company was building its first Web sites. Eventually, he was allowed to hire some help, but even in the late nineties management still was not fully committed to IT. "Even then we didn't realize the level of commitment in terms of people that we needed to make an IT department," says Turner. "We took it for granted." When one of Wall's key hires left for a competitor offering more money, he deemed it time to force the issue.
"I had to say that I did not want to be IT, I just wanted to use it," Wall says. "I was willing to participate on a committee with management to get beyond the nucleus we had established, to professionalize the function." That led to what Turner calls a "significant increase" in the company's investment in staff, including the hiring, in early 2001, of Chris Newsome, who had previously worked in the snack-food and textile industries, to become Hendrick's Director of Information Technology.
"We had to get more sophisticated very quickly, and thanks in large part to Jim we've been able to do that on both the financial and engineering sides of the business," says Turner. "We could do that because of the confidence we had in the engineering group."
Wall describes the current setup as "CIO by committee." He still oversees the major design and production systems, and he manages relationships with technology sponsors Haas and UGS. Newsome serves as the de facto technology officer, with a staff of eight, probably the largest of any NASCAR shop. Together, they have upgraded network infrastructure and put key applications on the network, and also rewritten a critical data acquisition Web application in order to make its dynamometer and engine performance data accessible via Web browsers. The CIO "committee" can include non-techies, too. An online application called Avantis that provides real-time parts inventory, along with features such as automated procurement and reordering capacity, was driven by Chief Financial Officer Scott Lampe as way to better understand and control the costs of parts and material.
In an ideal world, Wall, Newsome, Lampe and company might use their data to create a fail-safe NASCAR engine, but, given the complexity of the product, and the stresses of its environment, that remains a pipe dream. For now, Wall is focused on expanding the searchable product data management system, Teamcenter Enterprise from UGS, that he used to redesign the pickup frame; when completed, it will allow the organization to know its engines down to the material composition and tolerances of any component.
"Right now, we can't afford to have every small part documented and drawn in the system," Wall saysthis, just days after a tiny, vendor-supplied doohickey, called a retaining ring, failed in Jeff Gordon's engine during a race at the Michigan International Speedway. Gordon had to drop out of the competition. Wall's argument remains that successful teams must know how to findor build a replacement in a hurry.
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Down a hill from Hendrick's engine building is the chassis-engineering shop, a warehouse-sized space where the race cars take shape. As with NASCAR engines, the body has to be made from a handful of stock parts and a lot of custom-built pieces designed on-site. Engineers at the chassis and engine shops can work concurrently via the Teamcenter software that makes CAD modeling and other systems available.
Around the perimeter of the complex are the individual team shops for Johnson, Gordon, et al. By the time a car reaches these particular team shops, the focus shifts to preparing the vehicle to meet the wants and needs of its driver, and for weekly variables such as race length and track conditions. Mechanics there install the wiring and other critical systems, using online access to the parts database.
One day in June, at the garage of Terry Labonte's No. 5 Kellogg's car, a mechanic showed Wall a part of the brake line that had vibrated loose during the Coca-Cola 600, knocking Labonte out of the race. Wall and the mechanic talked about possible fixes for the vibration problema face-to-face conversation that would later be translated to the design screen, and ultimately into a new part.
At the race track, Hendrick teams use Panasonic Toughbook laptop computers and a wireless LAN and satellite links to communicate with the computers at headquarters. As Hendrick's rival teams have made laptops and wireless networks standard equipment, rather than the exception, on the left-turn circuit, Wall hopes to have handhelds in use soon that also will allow his team to access information from the main library, back in Charlotte. Brian Vickers, the youngest driver on the Hendrick roster, has shown a lot of interest in understanding test data, so the IT team recently purchased him a laptop, too.
Curiously, while NASCAR racing teams have embraced IT, NASCAR itself has not. While the family-owned, Daytona Beach, Fla.-based organization has undertaken projects such as the installation of radio-frequency modems to archive information from the pit areas of racetracks, and while NASCAR is considering enhancements to its own wireless communications system between the tracks and headquarters, the sport's sanctioning body declined to comment in detail on its tech policies for this article.
"They do as much as they can to repress technology, in part to control costs, and in part because they don't want technology to be the centerpiece," Wall says. "They want the focus on people, on teamwork, so it's a human competition and not a technology competition." But when technology can reinforce its message, as with a slick Web site, NASCAR is willing to make the investment.
The competition, though, is definitely in the hunt. Joe Gibbs Racing, for example, the successful team owned by the once-and-future coach of the Washington Redskins, now uses the same UGS product lifecycle management software that Wall uses to accelerate the redesign of parts such as that simple pickup frame. "Product data is intellectual property, and what you know about your product, and how you manage that information, will help determine your success," Wall says.
As a pair of disembodied engines rev and whine their way through dynamometer testing in the next room, Wall secures one of the old pickup frames in a vise and whacks it a couple of times with an orange-handled hammer. It fractures. He shrugs. "Failure is product information, too," he says.


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Athabasca Basin and beyondAugust 31st, 2013
Uranium news from Saskatchewan and elsewhere for August 24 to 30, 2013
by Greg Klein
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Fission proposes Alpha takeover for sole control of Patterson Lake South
This week's Patterson Lake South news came not from the field or an assay lab but from the boardrooms. Separate August 26 news releases from 50/50 joint venture partners Fission Uranium TSXV:FCU and Alpha Minerals TSXV:AMW revealed that talks had been underway about the former taking over the latter.
It transpired that after the market closed on Friday, August 23, Fission gave Alpha until the following Sunday afternoon to respond to Fission's all-share offer, then valued at $7.26 per Alpha share or about $170.44 million. When Alpha asked for more time to consider, Fission went public, saying it "will consider making a formal offer directly to Alpha's shareholders."
By press time August 31, neither company had made further announcements on the subject.
Read more about Fission's proposal and Alpha's response.
Read commentator Tommy Humphreys' suggestions for a combined Fission/Alpha team.
Update: On September 3 both companies announced a letter of intent for Fission to acquire Alpha. Read more.
Ashburton finds radioactive boulders at Sienna West, reports historic data
Ashburton Ventures TSXV:ABR has wrapped up Phase I exploration at its 1,090-hectare Sienna West property about 40 kilometres southwest of the PLS discovery, the company announced on August 28. "Numerous" radioactive boulders showed gamma ray readings above 200 counts per second, with some measuring 1,500 to 1,800 cps. About 20 boulders will be assayed, the company stated. In addition 40 radon detector cups were placed, to be retrieved for analysis after 30 days.
Ashburton also cited historic, non-43-101 Geological Survey of Canada sediment samples from two lakes on the property that showed results in the 98th percentile of 909 samples from roughly 16,000 square kilometres of northwestern Saskatchewan. The lakes are two kilometres apart, suggesting the results "are not an isolated occurrence," the company added.
The Sienna project includes the 147-hectare Sienna North property contiguous with PLS's northern boundary. Two weeks earlier Ashburton reported a crew found radioactive boulders there, which were sent for assays, and placed radon cups. The company plans to identify drill targets for Sienna's next phase.
Enexco/Denison drill Bachman Lake
Drilling has begun at Bachman Lake, an 11,419-hectare property about four kilometres west of Cameco Corp's TSX:CCO proposed Millennium mine in the southeastern Athabasca Basin. The three-hole, 1,900-metre program will cost JV partners Denison Mines TSX:DML and International Enexco TSXV:IEC $570,000, the latter announced on August 26. The helicopter-supported campaign will test three conductors that lie 2.5 to five kilometres apart.
Enexco may earn a 20% interest by funding $500,000 by year-end. Denison, which holds a 7.4% interest in Enexco, acts as project operator. Enexco also holds a 30% interest in the 3,407-hectare Mann Lake JV 20 kilometres northeast, along with Cameco (52.5%) and AREVA Resources Canada (17.5%). In Nevada, Enexco's 100% Contact copper project now undergoes pre-feasibility.
Fission finds "significant and strongly radioactive" anomalies on North Shore
On the northwestern Basin, airborne geophysics found two "significant and strongly radioactive" anomalies on Fission's North Shore property, the company reported August 29. "The northern anomalous region occurs within a 1.5-kilometre by 0.5-kilometre area and contains several parallel trends up to 300 metres," the company stated. Another anomaly about seven kilometres southwest ranges between one to 10 kilometres wide and up to three kilometres long. The company added that radiometrics suggest some of the larger anomalies "are likely to be part of the outcrop/sub-crop, as opposed to boulders."
Fission credited the find to its patent-pending System and Method for Aerial Surveying or Mapping of Radioactive Deposits, which the company says is the same technology that found the PLS boulder field. In August Fission's collaborator on the system, Special Projects Inc, flew a 12,257-line-kilometre magnetic and radiometric survey at 50-metre line-spacing over the entire property. The system can distinguish between radioactivity released by uranium, thorium or potassium, as well as determine the relative concentration of each element, Fission stated.
Along with further data analysis, the company plans to follow up with mapping and prospecting. The property underwent a seven-hole, 1,260-metre drill program in 2007 and 2008. Fission has interests in seven Basin uranium projects and one in Peru.
U3O8 negotiating JV with Argentinian state-owned company
U3O8 Corp TSX:UWE announced August 27 that advanced discussions are underway with the state-owned mining company of Chubut province, Argentina, to form a JV. The proposal would combine U3O8's Laguna Salada uranium-vanadium project with adjoining concessions held by Petrominera Chubut SE, onto which U3O8 believes its deposit extends. The company said the deal would also "establish a framework for potential development of the Laguna Salada deposit in compliance with the stringent requirements of the current provincial mining law." The project has a preliminary economic assessment scheduled later this year.
Having acquired Calypso Uranium last May, U3O8 holds Argentina's two largest uranium deposits. The country plans to bring a third reactor online this year, boosting its proportion of nuclear energy to 9%, while a fourth reactor is out for tender and a fifth is being planned, U3O8 stated. Argentina currently imports all of its nuclear fuel.
In Colombia, U3O8's Berlin project has a December PEA for a potential uranium mine with phosphate, vanadium, nickel and rare earths credits. The company also has a uranium project in Guyana.
Boss Power/Morning Star dispute stalls $30-million settlement
A $30-million settlement dating to October 2011 is being held up by a dispute between its beneficiaries. After the British Columbia government suddenly banned uranium and thorium exploration in 2009, the province eventually settled Boss Power's TSXV:BPU lawsuit out of court. But a condition required the company to surrender its exploration properties, the Blizzard properties and the peripheral B claims. According to an August 19 news release from Morning Star Resources, the settlement hasn't closed because Boss included those claims in the settlement "without the knowledge and consent of the B claims owner," Anthony Beruschi.
An August 27 Boss news release acknowledged Beruschi, "sole director and president of Morning Star" and a former Boss director, as "beneficial owner of the B claims."
Boss' news release claimed Beruschi "appears determined to extract more than his fair share of the settlement proceeds" and "now appears to be leveraging media and threats of a board replacement to obtain payment for his B claims."
Morning Star's August 19 statement said Beruschi "has privately presented several fair offers to Boss' management and the board to enable Boss to deliver the B claims under the settlement" and accused Boss of "a refusal to negotiate in good faith."
Morning Star said it will present its own slate of nominees for election to Boss' board at a meeting Morning Star expects to be held by mid-November "so that it can promptly close the $30-million settlement." Morning Star stated that it and its affiliates hold about 33% of Boss' shares.
Boss countered it will "continue its efforts to reach an agreement with Mr. Beruschi while at the same time pursuing court proceedings to allow the settlement proceeds to be paid into court and the settlement to complete."
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Every year cattle producers encounter problems with calves that are born with congenital abnormalities. These abnormalities can be quite variable and may include calves born with deformed legs ("crooked calf disease"), crooked spines, cleft palates, absence of an anus, heart defects, hydrocephalus to name but a few of the more commonly encountered abnormalities. It is not uncommon to see a calf with multiple anomalies involving different organ systems. It has been estimated that from 0.5 -1.0 percent of calves are born with congenital defects (Leipold H., 1987 Vet Clinics North Am 3: 159-177).
Any agent (infectious, chemical, toxin, genetic, physical) that alters the normal development of the embryo or fetus is referred to as a teratogen. Pregnant cows are often exposed to numerous teratogens, but the fetus may not be affected unless the teratogen is present in the fetus at critical stages of development. In some instances the teratogenic agent acts very specifically in a narrow window of time of fetal organ development . A classical example of this is the development of a Cyclops condition in lambs and calves (Figure 1) as a result of the pregnant animal eating western false hellebore (Veratrum californicum) in the 13-14th days of pregnancy. Eaten before or after this narrow window of time, Cyclops malformation does not develop.
A common teratogen affecting cattle is the virus that causes bovine virus diarrhea (BVD). Depending on when the pregnant cow becomes infected with the BVD virus determines the degree of damage to the fetus; early in gestation infection may result in embryonic death, fetal death and mummification; later in gestation abortion and fetal malformations may develop. Some modified live BVD vaccines given to pregnant cattle will cause similar problems in the fetus. Blue tongue virus is also well known to cause fetal malformations in cattle and sheep. Another foreign animal disease that is teratogenic is Rift Valley fever virus.
There are many hundreds of chemical teratogens. Antibiotics such as tetracyclines may affect fetal development. Many pesticides are teratogenic to all animals. The sudden appearance of a congenitally deformed calf always warrants careful consideration of the chemicals the cow may have been exposed to during her pregnancy.
Cattle raised on rangelands are frequently exposed to plant teratogens. The most common plant-induced congenital abnormalities are attributable to lupines (Lupinus spp.), poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), locoweeds (Astragalus and Oxytropis spp.), and tree tobacco (Nicotiana glauca). These plants eaten by pregnant cows between the 40th and 100th days of gestation will cause 'crooked calf disease" (Figure 2). Affected calves are born with various deformities of the bones of the legs and quite often have cleft palates. The latter problem results in a calf that has milk running out its nose at it suckles. As mentioned earlier, western false hellebore or corn lily (Veratrum californicum) common at higher elevations in the Rocky Mountains is a well known teratogen causing cyclopia. Other plants that grow in the western States that have been associated with calf deformities include sorghums, members of the Prunus genus (eg: choke cherries), jimson weed (Datura stramonium) and groundsels (Senecio spp.). Loss of pregnancy as a result of embryonic death in many cases may be due to teratogens. There are many other plants that are associated with abortions possibly as a result of teratogenic compounds in the plants.
In vitro fertilization must also be considered when investigating the possible causes of fetal malformations. Higher rates of abortion and fetal skeletal deformities have been reported with in vitro fertilization. Similarly rectal palpation and rectal ultrasound examinations for pregnancy detection in the first 42 days of gestation has been associated with increased atresia ani (absence of the anus) (Constable, 1989; J Am Vet Med Assoc 195:118-123).
Lastly, genetic abnormalities can result in numerous fetal malformations. Internal hydrocephalus (abnormal accumulation of fluid in the brain) is well known to be an autosomal recessive trait especially in some Charolais breed lines. The Simmental breed has a genetic defect that causes brachygnathism ('parrot mouth"). Polydactylism (extra digits) is another such inherited trait in cattle. Introduction of new genetic lines to a herd should always be suspected when calf malformations are encountered.
Source: Dr. Tony Knight, Colorado State University Veterinary College


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Central Ore. -- The largest wildfire burning in Oregon right now has scorched more than 395,000 acres.
The Buzzard Complex is burning about 45 miles northeast of Burns, in Central Oregon.
According to the Bureau of Land Development the perimeter was about 75 percent contained by 8 a.m. Monday morning.
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Coaches are in place for fall and winter sports for Fayette athletes.
Board members voted Monday to hire the following fall season coaches: varsity golf, Ryan Colegrove; junior high golf, Todd Mitchell; cross country, Bryan Stambaugh and Matt Maginn; varsity and junior varsity volleyball, Michala Riegsecker and Jodi Ordway; junior high volleyball, Alissa Stockburger and Dani Keefer; varsity cheer advisor, Alissa Stockburger.
Winter season coaches include: girls varsity basketball, Ashley Oyer; girls junior varsity basketball, Matt Schaffner; girls eighth grade basketball, John Winzeler; boys varsity basketball, Todd Mitchell; boys junior varsity basketball, Matt Maginn; boys eighth grade basketball, Ryan Colegrove; boys seventh grade basketball, Nick Ramos; summer weight room advisors, Todd Mitchell and Leo Wixom; school year weight room advisor, Leo Wixom.
STAFF—Lacy Stambaugh was hired as an intervention teacher for the 2008-09 school year. Twelve-week family leave was approved for Brittan Bosco effective in August.
Two-year contracts were approved for technology coordinator Rebecca Short, EMIS coordinator Hayley Brown, and athletic director Dave Hoste.
Some concern was expressed about Hoste's job during the past year, but Griggs said he will work with him to improve his availability in the district and his communication with district residents.
Some of the criticism leveled against Hoste isn't warranted, Griggs said.
SCORES—Secondary principal Dan Feasel said he was very pleased with Fayette's results on the Ohio Graduation Test.
DATA STORAGE—Technology coordinator Rebecca Short told the board she will be working on Griggs's goal to reduce the paper storage of data. Many documents will be scanned and stored electronically.
REVENUE—The latest five-year revenue forecast reflects a more conservative outlook, said district treasurer Adam Adamski, due to economic conditions.
According to the county auditor's report, $130,000 has been collected in delinquent accounts, but $80,000 remains outstanding.


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The name Anton Webern sometimes strikes fear in the heart of symphonic audiences. Webern, Berg, Schoenberg, the trio that makes up the Second Viennese School, are thought of as composers of difficult, non-emotional, overly intellectual, unapproachable music. While Webern's music is complex, it is often very expressive. It can take a few extra performances to get used to this language, so I've put a video of the music at the end of this blog.
The short work the San Antonio Symphony is playing this weekend is called Passacaglia, Op. 1 and it was written as a graduation piece for his teacher Arnold Schoenberg in 1908. Webern worked as a conductor in Germany and Austria until his music was declared "degenerate art" by the Nazis in 1938. He only published 31 compositions before he was accidentally killed by an American soldier. He stepped outside his house to smoke a cigar and was shot for violating curfew.
A passacaglia is an old musical form. It originated in Spain in the early 17th century. It contains a series of variations, all played over a theme that repeats over and over again. Webern's passacaglia has 23 variations. One of the challenging aspects of Webern's music is his use of the orchestra. Instead of having one instrument play a theme, he takes each note of the tune and gives it to a different instrument. This creates a fabulous range of orchestral colors, but also makes it tough to follow his themes without careful and repeated listening.
The short piece is divided into two videos. Turn up your volume, because it starts very softly…
If Webern isn't your cup of tea, don't worry. This weekend's concert also includes music by Mozart, Bartók and Strauss' waltz-filled and tuneful Suite from Der Rosenkavalier.
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14th endangered Borneo elephant found dead in forest reserve
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia More than a dozen pygmy elephants found dead and possibly poisoned in Malaysian forests were in reserves slated to be converted into plantations, the wildlife group WWF said Thursday, raising the prospect that they were deliberately killed by humans taking over their habitat.
Authorities found the carcass of another endangered Borneo pygmy elephant, believed to have been dead for two weeks, in the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve late Wednesday, marking the 14th such death since December.
The elephants are feared to have been poisoned because they encroached on Malaysian plantations, giving fresh urgency to activists' warnings of rising conflict between man and wildlife as development accelerates.
The WWF said the dead elephants were found in areas where forests were being converted for plantations within permanent forest reserves.
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"The central forest landscape in Sabah needs to be protected totally from conversion," the group said in a statement.
"Conversions result in fragmentation of the forests, which in turn results in loss of natural habitat for elephant herds, thus forcing them to find alternative food and space, putting humans and wildlife in direct conflict," the WWF said.
Sabah, one of two Malaysian states on Borneo island, is home to endangered animals including the pygmy elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros and orangutan. Wildlife activists say their numbers have dwindled in recent decades because of illegal poaching and the loss of jungles cut down for timber and development.
Although Malaysia is increasingly industrialized, large-scale agriculture and forestry are important sources of employment and revenue for many rural households. Some 60 percent of Sabah state is currently under forest cover, but activists say the deforestation rate is rising, with large forest areas slated for conversion to farmland or timber concession.
The first 10 known deaths of the pygmy elephants were made public this week, capturing wide attention as only about 1,200 of the elephants exist worldwide. Authorities released several photographs of the elephant carcasses, including a particularly poignant one of a 3-month-old surviving calf trying to wake its dead mother. The male calf was taken to a Sabah wildlife park and appeared healthy.
Sabah wildlife director Laurentius Ambu said Thursday that the area where the dead elephants were found is part of a 100,000-acre (40,469-hectare) piece of "commercial forest reserve" land managed by state agency Sabah Foundation. He said the area was slated to be used as a tree plantation for sustainable logging. So far, two palm oil plantations and a logging company operate in the area, he said.
Sabah is one of the poorest states in Malaysia. Sabah Foundation was granted huge forest concessions, totaling about 14 percent of total land area in Sabah, by the state government to enable it to generate income to fund its aim of improving the lives of poor rural people.
The Sabah Foundation website said it had adopted sound forest management policies to ensure the areas are managed on a sustainable basis.
Ambu said far too many jungle areas in Sabah were being broken up by agricultural or logging activities, without corridors linking them to allow animals to pass through.
"This shouldn't be. The fragmentation of forests has disrupted the elephants' traditional routes to look for food," he told The Associated Press. "It is highly suspected that the poisoning is blatantly done or that it's a well-planned program."
Department veterinarians have said the dead elephants, believed to belong to a single herd, suffered severe bleeding and gastrointestinal ulcers.
Police are investigating the deaths and officials have declined to say whether there are any suspects.
Ambu said there were a few cases in the past where elephants were found poisoned to death on plantations, but not on such a large scale.
Most of the pygmy elephants live in Sabah and grow to about 8 feet (245 centimeters) tall, a foot or two shorter than mainland Asian elephants. Known for their babyish faces, large ears and long tails, Borneo pygmy elephants were found to be a distinct subspecies only in 2003, after DNA testing.


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Use of menthol cigarettes is rising among teenagers and "very high" for minority youth, government advisers said in part of a draft report released on Monday.
More than 80 percent of black adolescent smokers and more than half of Hispanic adolescent smokers use menthol cigarettes, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said in a draft chapter for a report due next week. The FDA will use the report to help decide whether to ban or limit menthol, or mint-flavored, cigarettes.
Any curbs would be a severe blow to top menthol maker Lorillard Inc, which sells the Newport brand. Reynolds American Inc's R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co and Altria Group Inc's Philip Morris also sell menthol cigarettes.
Menthols account for nearly one-third of the $83 billion in annual U.S. cigarette sales, according Euromonitor International data.
"Menthol cigarette use is very high among minority youth," the draft from FDA advisers said. Among Asian-American middle-school smokers, more than half use menthol.
It also said the rise among adolescents in general was driven by a "significant increase in the number of white youth ages 12 to 17 who are smoking menthol cigarettes."
The FDA advisers are set to hold a public meeting on Thursday and Friday to discuss their findings. In previously released chapters, advisers said there was a lack of evidence to show menthol cigarettes expose smokers to higher risk of disease but that the flavoring might make cigarettes more addictive.
The complete report is due to go to the FDA by March 23. The FDA is not bound by the panel's recommendation and has no deadline to take any action.
Lorillard has filed a lawsuit to prevent the FDA from considering the panel's report in making any final decision on the cigarettes.
Lorillard shares fell 0.5 percent to $78.86, Reynolds shares fell 0.3 percent to $33.62 and Altria shares were down a penny at $25.04, all on the New York Stock Exchange.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine and Susan Heavey, editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Dave Zimmerman)
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Unlike Americans, the people of Iceland were allowed to vote on bailing out the banksters. They voted overwhelmingly against the proposal on Saturday despite the intimidation tactics of the globalist loan sharking operation, the International Monetary Fund.
For a second time, Icelanders rejected a scheme to "repay" – as Reuters deemed it – $5 billion to banks in Britain and the Netherlands following the engineered looting and crash of the Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir banks. The crash all but destroyed Iceland's economy and swindled thousands of European bank customers.
60 percent of voters opposed the shakedown while 40 percent said the country should give in to bankster intimidation.
Iceland did something unthinkable in the United States – it went after the banksters and their minions. In early March, Sigurdur Einarsson, former chairman of the defunct Icelandic bank Kaupthing, was arrested in London. The the Special Prosecutor's Office in Reykjavik ordered the police to raid the homes of other bank principals. Ivar Gundjonson of Iceland's failed Landsbanki bank was also arrested.
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Predictably, the corporate media has under-reported Iceland's efforts to arrest and prosecute bankers.
Following the outcome of Saturday's referendum, Iceland Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir warned that the banksters will declare war on the tiny island nation. "We must do all we can to prevent political and economic chaos as a result of this outcome," she said.
The court of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, the European trade racket overseeing Iceland's cooperation with the globalist European Union, will now take up the issue. "My estimate is that the process will take a year, a year and a half at least, Finance Minister Steingrimur Sigfusson told a news conference.
"Ever since Iceland decided to stop pandering to banker interests, and transfer its country's wealth to banks from Europe and Holland, its economy has in fact been on a constant upward trajectory," Zero Hedge wrote on Sunday. The website provides two charts to show how telling the bankers to stuff it has benefited the country.
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With only days left for lawmakers to prevent rates on some new federal student loans from doubling, Washington insiders say Congress will punt the private student loan issue to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Analysts at Washington Analysis said Monday that they believed "Congress will not move forward with legislation aimed at private student loans." Rather, "we expect the CFPB will eventually develop private student loan servicing standards."
During a hearing held Tuesday by the Senate Banking Committee called "Private Student Loans: Regulatory Perspectives," Chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., offered some scary statistics about the state of student loan debt: It "now stands at over $1 trillion and is second only to mortgage debt as the largest form of debt in the country," balances "have almost tripled since 2004," and "an alarming one-third of borrowers are delinquent on their loans."
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said that if Congress fails to act, interest rates will double July 1 on federal Stafford loans—jumping from 3.4% to 6.8%.
Eleanor Blayney, consumer advocate for the CFP Board, told AdvisorOne that because Congress has yet to reach an agreement, "it becomes more likely that rates will double on subsidized federal loans."
Rohit Chopra, student loan ombudsman for the CFPB, who testified before the committee, responded to Reed's comment that the change in the Stafford student loan rates—if they doubled—would "only impact future borrowers, not those currently trying to refinance and pay back those loans." He said that while "some would guess that change would be a slight tail wind to private loan origination, I don't expect it to be a huge one."
As revealed during testimony at the hearing, recent studies report that about 39 million borrowers have a student loan, with an average balance of about $25,000.
Of this total student loan debt, the CFPB has estimated the size of the private student loan market to be about $150 billion as of year-end 2011, representing about 15% of student loans outstanding, compared with 85% for the federal student loan market.
Johnson noted that nearly 1 million borrowers are in default on their private student loans. "While federal loans offer flexible relief during periods of hardship, most private student lenders do not offer the same options for struggling graduates," he said.
Sen. Michael Crapo, R-Idaho, agreed, adding that one concern he often hears "is that banks do not offer enough borrower relief options," such as refinancing of private student loans.
Todd Vermilyea, Senior Associate Director for the Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation at the Federal Reserve and Doreen Eberley, director of Risk Management Supervision at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., who both testified before the committee, offered to work with committee members to fill the refinancing gap.
It's "unclear why there is not an active refinance market for student debt," Eberley said. "We'd be interested in working with you on that."
Added Vermilyea: "Regulatory policy would allow for it."
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Daniel Abt captured his first podium finish of the season for Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler
In the hottest race in Formula E history, the defending champion, Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler, captured its first podium finish of the season in Santiago de Chile.
The Audi e-tron FE05 passed its first test under intense heat and was, from the start, the car to beat. Lucas di Grassi stated that he drove the "best lap" of his Formula E career during the Super Pole shoot-out on the new city circuit, beating out the competition by half a second.
Teammate Daniel Abt secured the third position on the starting grid with his Audi e-tron FE05 and captured a third place during race as well – despite oppressive heat reaching up to 37 degrees even in the shade. The win was the first podium finish for defending champion Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler in the 2018/2019 FIA Formula E Championship. Abt also earned an additional point for the fastest lap of the race.
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"It was an unbelievably grueling race," Abt said. "It was extremely hot out there. Sometimes you just have to 'keep cool'. That's what we did today. This first podium finish of the season is very important for our team."
Due to a rules violation during the cool-down lap in group qualifying, Lucas di Grassi was forced to start in last place. The Brazilian fought his way back from 22nd place into point contention in ninth place. However, he incurred a time penalty as the result of a collision, which dropped him down to 12th place.
Sam Bird of the Audi customer team Envision Virgin Racing took the win in Santiago de Chile. The Briton forced the leader of much of the race, Nissan driver Sébastien Buemi, into an error and then fended off the Mahindra driven by former DTM champion Pascal Wehrlein. The strong showing by the Audi e-tron FE05 was rounded off by Bird's teammate, Robin Frijns, who finished fifth.
The fourth race of the Formula E season will take place on 16 February in Mexico City. It was here that Daniel Abt won his first race in the electric racing series last year and laid the foundation for capturing the team championship.


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Hughes, the school's principal, came on board in September of 2002, after working at schools in Brownsville and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The previous year, J.H.S. 292 ranked at the top of a citywide list of troubled schools.
Today, it boasts significantly improved test scores, a bevy of extracurricular programs and a reputation as a safe haven for youth in what remains one of - if not the most - violent neighborhoods in New York City.
It has been a stunning turnaround, led by a man with an equally interesting life's story, one that begins in the segregated South. Hughes, who is African American, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1952.
"I had to ride the back of the bus when I was coming up. Everything was segregated," Hughes said. He was barred from attending his local library and the city museum. Blacks were allowed to attend the zoo only one day a week.
Even then, Hughes stood out; he led a delegation from his high school in a march for sanitation workers that featured King, shortly before the civil rights leader was assassinated in April of 1968.
That summer, Hughes left Memphis for New York, settling with his mother in public housing in Fort Greene. He went on to earn several master's degrees and worked for a brief period on Wall Street before turning to education full-time.
J.H.S. 292 does have an unusually successful roster of programs.
There's the famous Soul Tigers marching band, which has performed with the likes of Mariah Carey and Jessica Simpson, and has the distinction of being the first minority group to lead the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
There's a martial arts team that competes around the world, an African dance group, a culinary arts course - the list goes on and on. Most importantly, student performance has increased by leaps and bounds in the past eight years.
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How to Make Continuous Bias Binding
Sewing is a continually evolving art. Learning new and interesting techniques is one of the best ways to build upon your current knowledge. It keeps your skills fresh and your ideas lively. We have two great how-to articles on binding in general: Bias Binding: Figuring Yardage, Cutting, Making and Attaching and A Complete Step-by-Step for Binding Quilts & Throws. In this article, we're continuing our journey down the binding path to a "sub-set" technique called: continuous bias binding. It's a little bit like the ancient art of origami. You start out with a flat square (or rectangle), and after a few folds and flips here and there, you have something completely different, very dimensional, and quite useful.
First, a brief recap of why we use binding and the difference between straight and bias.
When you have an exposed raw edge, for instance, around the edge of a quilt, you need to finish it in some way. Binding, whether straight or bias, is ideal for covering the raw edges while creating a decorative finish at the same time. Of course, like anything, there are pros and cons to each type of binding. Straight grain binding uses less fabric and is quick and easy to make. However, it's not as strong as bias binding, and is best for straight edges only. Bias binding, which is traditionally cut at a 45˚angle, is stronger and more durable than straight grain binding, and is pliable (due to the stretch of the bias), allowing it to go more smoothly around all kinds of shapes – especially curves. However, it requires more fabric and is a little more challenging to make.
Soooo… what is continuous bias binding? It's one of those "two birds with one stone" techniques. Simply stated, it's a technique for pre-sewing bias binding strips before you actually cut them. The process eliminates having to sew a bunch of strips together end-to-end to get the length you need to go around your project. The best way to understand it is to just show you.
If you are new to working with binding, as we mentioned above, please see our tutorial: Bias Binding: Figuring Yardage, Cutting, Making, Attaching. It gives you all the handy formulas, tips, and techniques for the four key steps outlined in its title, discusses single fold versus double fold, and lists the tools to have on hand.
Once you've done the "fabric math" (using our tutorial or your own experienced brain power)… onward we go to continuous bias binding.
Continuous method
If you review continuous bias binding methods in quilt books, as well as on websites and blogs, you'll find a few variations in the actual steps for the technique. Using our experience, we captured what we feel is the best of the bunch: a single set of steps that provides a clear and simple approach.
NOTE: We're using a plain fabric and a permanent marker so you can clearly see the marking steps. However, YOU should use a fabric pen or pencil that can be easily removed.
- Lay your fabric on a cutting mat, right side down.
- Cut the predetermined size square from your binding fabric (again, the tutorial mentioned above gives you the formulas needed to determine this size). Your figuring should include removing the selvage edges. We trimmed our fabric to a 21″ x 21″ square.
- To find the true bias, fold the square at a diagonal. Press the fold in place.
- Open the fabric back up so you can see the crease. The fabric should still be right side down.
- Mark the left side of your square with an "A," the right side with a "B."
- Using a see-through ruler and a rotary cutter, cut along the diagonal crease line.
- Carefully place the "B" triangle to one side.
- Carefully flip over the "A" triangle so it is now right side up.
- Place triangle "B" on top of triangle "A" so they are right sides together and the bias cut edges form an "X" as shown in the photo below.
- Place pins along the straight edge.
NOTE: The points of the triangles will extend slightly beyond the right angle at either end. This is correct.
- Carefully bring your fabric to your sewing machine.
- Using a straight stitch and a ¼" seam allowance, sew along the straight edge, removing the pins as you go.
- Press the seam open.
- All the marking is done on the wrong side of the fabric, so place your fabric back on the cutting mat right side down. Your sewn fabric should now look a parallelogram and your seam should be vertical.
- With your fabric pencil and see-through ruler, mark seam lines ¼" in from the raw edges along the top and bottom of the parallelogram.
- Working from left to right, mark the pre-determined width of your binding strips (our pre-determined binding width was 2″ – again, you can refer to the previously mentioned tutorial to see how to figure that out).
- These lines should intersect with the ¼" seam lines marked at the top and bottom.
- Continue to mark in this matter across the entire parallelogram.
- If you have excess width at the end that does not equal the cut width of your bias strips, mark it with a bunch of Xs so you remember to trim it off and discard it at the end of the process.
- Along the top of the parallelogram, number your lines: 0, 1, 2, 3, etc. until all the lines are numbered. Yep… start with zero along the top.
- Along the bottom of the parallelogram, number your lines: 1, 2, 3, etc. until all lines are numbered. Yes, along the bottom, you start with 1.
- Fold the parallelogram right sides together, carefully matching the top and bottom numbers…1 to 1, 2 to 2, 3 to 3, etc. pinning in place as you go.
NOTE: You will match the "0" to the raw edge. This is your starting point where you will begin to sew in the following steps.
- If you look closely, when you match up the numbered points, the drawn lines create an "X". (We put a light behind our fabric in the photo below so you can see what we're talking about.)
- When you're completely done pinning, your parallelogram should look like an odd shaped tube. If it's flat, something is wrong.
- Bring the fabric tube to your sewing machine.
- Sew along the drawn ¼" seam line where you matched the numbers. Begin to sew at the zero – at the intersecting first seam. Stop at your last marked number. Our last marked number was 5.
NOTE: Since you will be cutting across this seam, shorten your stitch length to help keep the stitching intact. We used 1.8mm. Also, you will have to slightly manipulate the positioning of the tube as you sew this seam; be sure to handle the fabric gently so it doesn't stretch out of shape.
- Press the seam open. You will have to rotate the tube as you press the seam.
- With fabric scissors, cut along the marked line, starting at zero.
- Continue around and around, cutting along the drawn line, spiraling around the tube, until you get to the end.
- Congratulations! You just made continuous bias binding.
- Remember that extra section we marked with Xs? Now's the time to cut it off.
- At this point, you will press your binding into a single or double fold then sew it to your project. Again, we recommend reviewing our other binding articles for detailed steps on attaching binding and additional helpful links.
Hints and Tips
- Before you actually cut your square, you should determine if you need to preshrink or prewash your fabric.
- If calculating your yardage is overwhelming, there are charts available online (search "calculate bias binding"), in books, and as laminated cards.
- To make longer continuous bias binding, you can use a rectangle instead of a square or cut two squares on the bias and sew them together to make a larger parallelogram.
- Look for sale and clearance fabrics that would make great binding. Buy a yard and pre-make binding for future projects.
- If you are binding a project with batting between the layers of fabric, such as a quilt, you may need to add ¼" to your strip's cut width to account for the thickness or type of batting used.
- If your project has more than one layer, again like a quilt, before attaching the binding, it's a good idea to baste the edges together. This keeps any of the layers from folding back away from the edge in the sewing process. Otherwise, you would have to rip out your binding stitches and re-do those specific areas.
- You can use a fat quarter for binding, there are charts available on the Internet that do the math for you and explain how much binding you will get depending on the cut width of the strips.
- If your tube is wide enough, you can insert a small cutting mat inside it and use a rotary cutter to cut the final continuous strip. This works even better if you place the cutting mat on the small end of your ironing board, and slip the tube around your ironing board.
- If you make your markings on the right side, you can use a rotary cutter and mat in the traditional manner, you'll just have to keep turning the tube and cutting a little at a time. Even doing that, it's still faster than using scissors as described above.
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Sunday, March 31, 2013 | Posted by kara-karina@Nocturnal Book Reviews
Fantastic week on book front again which you could probably see from highly rated book reviews I've managed to post so far ;)
I also seem to find that I cope better with blogging when I actively socialize, answer your comments and return them on weekend instead of each day of the week, so please forgive me again for my silence, but I will get back to you today!
Other than that,
Russian Orthodox Easter is on 5th of May this year, but I made Easter cakes last night in celebration of Western Easter as I'm going away on the 6th of May. These are the equivalent of Italian panettone, and when they tell you it takes around 4 hours to make them? They LIE. Usually it takes all day (I spent 9 hrs) :D
I had some problems with BLOOD ROSES in the end but I hope that good editing can change it before the book goes into print. Overall I do like this series. It's harsh, doesn't sugarcoat paranormal beings and reads like very intense mind-games. I had to put the book down and walk away few times, because it was getting too intense and I needed a breather. TWICE TEMPTED was absolutely delightful, and I really enjoyed reading about Vlad and Leila. Way stronger than the first book in this series. At last, AN OFFICER'S DUTY was just as awesome as book #1! I love and worship this series, and that's the end of it. Need to read Hellfire soon.
£1.19 on kindle UK!
I really wanted to read it but with the retail price of £20 couldn't afford it until now.
Obviously pre-order came in and I dropped everything to read it straight away!
Again, after finishing the first book last week I couldn't think of anything else apart from ordering the second book and reading it as soon as I get it...
Thank you, Harper Collins!
Don't forget there is a giveaway for this book here.
Fair Game request was inspired by Blodeuedd and Revelation by Melliane ;) You know who you are, gals!
This is it.
How was your week, me dears?
Beautiful video. I had to watch it few times, and it's impossible to stay unhappy after it :)
You can't watch it here but it's well worth your while clicking through YouTube. Trust me.
Tags: indian, music, new books, the postman knock, индия, музыка, новые книги | 24 comments
The Deadly Sisterhood of Powerful Women of Renaissance: Book Spotlight and Giveaway (US only)
Saturday, March 30, 2013 | Posted by kara-karina@Nocturnal Book Reviews
When I first heard of this book, dear readers, I knew I had to read it. It's about Renaissance (which I love) and powerful women in its history (subject I can not resist), so I begged Harper Collins to allow me to spotlight the book and its heroines in exchange for a giveaway.
Unfortunately the giveaway is only limited to US because the hardback is heavy and expensive, but it also has some gorgeous illustrations that is a must for a fan of the era.
Allow me to briefly introduce you to The Deadly Sisterhood...
Lucrezia Tornabuoni
In Florence, a city where there was no princely court to provide titles of authority to women and at a time when women were frequently kept from the public sphere of men, Lucrezia Tornabuoni (b. 1425–d. 1482) exercised an impressive influence over the politics and culture around her. Her parents were members of two of the oldest and most powerful Florentine families, the Tornabuoni and Guicciardini, and with her marriage to the eldest son of Cosimo de' Medici, she was destined to become the prima donna of the city. Her family network would, in fact, serve as her source of influence: she was sister to the banker Giovanni Tornabuoni, wife of Piero de' Medici, the de facto head of the Republic, mother of Lorenzo "the Magnificent," and grandmother of future popes Leo X and Clement VII. Lucrezia would act as close advisor to her brother, husband, and children as well as overseeing the education of many of her grandchildren. Her influence extended beyond expected roles of domestic management, and in Tornabuoni's case specifically, her activities would include that of landowner, business woman, patron, political emissary, and poet.
Clarice Orsini
Clarice Orsini was the daughter of Jacopo Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo and Bracciano, and his wife and cousin Maddalena Orsini. Born in the Papal States, she is most known as the wife of Lorenzo de' Medici, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic.
Clarice married Lorenzo by proxy when she was 16. The marriage was arranged by Lorenzo's mother, who wanted her eldest son to marry a woman from a noble family, in order to enhance the social status of the Medicis. Clarice was not initially popular in Florence because her strict religious personality was in deep contrast with the humanist ideals of the age.
Despite the initial circumstances of their marriage, Clarice quickly proves herself to be much more than a political pawn. Sharp, patient, and deeply committed to Lorenzo, she's a valuable advisor to her husband.
Despite the initial circumstances of their marriage, Clarice quickly proves herself to be much more than a political pawn. Sharp, patient, and deeply committed to Lorenzo, she's a valuable advisor to her husband.
Beatrice D'Este
Beatrice d'Este (29 June 1475 – 3 January 1497), duchess of Bari and later of Milan, was the wife of the Milanese ruler Ludovico Sforza (known as "il Moro"). She was one of the most beautiful and accomplished princesses of the Italian Renaissance. A member of the Este family, she was the younger daughter of Ercole I d'Este and the sister of Isabella d'Este and Alfonso d'Este. Along with her sister, Beatrice was noted for her excellent taste in fashion and for having invented new clothing styles.
Beatrice belonged to the best class of Renaissance women, and was one of the cultural influences of the age; to a great extent, her patronage and good taste are responsible for the splendour of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, the Certosa of Pavia, and many other famous buildings in Lombardy. A fresco with her portrait faces da Vinci's Last Supper in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
Caterina Sforza
Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forlì (early 1463 – 28 May 1509) was an Italian noblewoman, the illegitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan and Lucrezia Landriani, the wife of the courtier Gian Piero Landriani, a close friend of the Duke. Raised in the refined Milanese court, Caterina later held the titles of Lady of Imola and Countess of Forlì, by her marriage to Girolamo Riario. She was also the Regent for her first-born son, Ottaviano. The descendant of a dynasty of noted condottieri, Caterina, from an early age, distinguished herself by her bold and impetuous actions taken to safeguard her possessions from possible usurpers, and to defend her dominions from attack, when they were involved in political intrigues that were a distinguishing feature of 15th century Italy.
In her private life Caterina was devoted to various activities, among which were experiments in alchemy and a love of hunting and dancing. She had a large number of children, of whom only the youngest, Captain Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, inherited the forceful, militant character of his mother.
Isabella D'Este
Isabella d'Este (18 May 1474 – 13 February 1539) was Marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure. She was a patron of the arts as well as a leader of fashion, whose innovative style of dressing was copied by women throughout Italy and at the French court. The poet Ariosto lauded her as the "liberal and magnanimous Isabella", while author Matteo Bandello described her as having been "supreme among women". Diplomat Niccolò da Correggio went even further by hailing her as "The First Lady of the world".
She served as the regent of Mantua during the absence of her husband, Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua and the minority of her son, Federico, Duke of Mantua. In 1500 she met King Louis XII of France in Milan on a diplomatic mission to persuade him not to send his troops against Mantua.
She was a prolific letter-writer, and maintained a lifelong correspondence with her sister-in-law Elisabetta Gonzaga. Lucrezia Borgia was another sister-in-law; she later became the mistress of Isabella's husband.
Guilia Farnese
Giulia Farnese (1474 – 23 March 1524) was mistress to Pope Alexander VI. She was known as Giulia la bella, meaning "Julia the beautiful" in Italian. Lorenzo Pucci described her as "most lovely to behold." Cesare Borgia, son of Alexander VI, described her as having "dark colouring, black eyes, round face and a particular ardor."
Isabella D'Aragona
or Isabella of Naples (2 October 1470 – February 11, 1524) was the daughter of King Alphonse II of Naples by his wife, Ippolita Maria Sforza. From 1489 to 1494, she was the Duchess consort of Milan, and from 1499 to 1524 the Duchess of Bari and Princess of Rossano. After her brother Ferdinand II's death, she was the heir of the Brienne claim to the title King of Jerusalem.
She married her first cousin, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, who at the time was the Duke of Milan. However, his uncle Ludovico Sforza was the de facto ruler.
Internet is rife with rumours that Isabella is the face behind Mona Lisa's portrait...
Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia (18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519) was the daughter of Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei. Her brothers included Cesare Borgia, Giovanni Borgia, and Gioffre Borgia.
Lucrezia's family later came to epitomize the ruthless Machiavellian politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaissance Papacy. Lucrezia was cast as a femme fatale, a role she has been portrayed as in many artworks, novels, and films.
Wouldn't you want to know more about these fascinating women?
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The book is one of drama on a grand scale, a Renaissance epic, as Christendom emerged from the shadows of the calamitous 14th century. The sweeping tale involves inspired and corrupt monarchs, the finest thinkers, the most brilliant artists, and the greatest beauties in Christendom.
Here is the story of eight of its most remarkable women, who are all joined by birth, marriage and friendship and who ruled for a time in place of their men-folk: Lucrezia Turnabuoni (Queen Mother of Florence, the power behind the Medici throne), Clarice Orsini (Roman princess, feudal wife), Beatrice d'Este (Golden Girl of the Renaissance), Caterina Sforza (Lioness of the Romagna), Isabella d'Este (the Acquisitive Marchesa), Giulia Farnese ('la bella', the family asset), Isabella d'Aragona (the Weeping Duchess) and Lucrezia Borgia (the Virtuous Fury). The men play a secondary role in this grand saga; whenever possible the action will be seen through the eyes our eight heroines.
These eight women experienced great riches, power and the warm smile of fortune, but they also knew banishment, poverty, the death of a husband or the loss of one or more of their children. As each of the chosen heroines comes to the fore in her turn, she is handed the baton by her 'sister' and Leonie Frieda recounts the role each woman played in the hundred-year drama that is THE DEADLY SISTERHOOD.
Here is the story of eight of its most remarkable women, who are all joined by birth, marriage and friendship and who ruled for a time in place of their men-folk: Lucrezia Turnabuoni (Queen Mother of Florence, the power behind the Medici throne), Clarice Orsini (Roman princess, feudal wife), Beatrice d'Este (Golden Girl of the Renaissance), Caterina Sforza (Lioness of the Romagna), Isabella d'Este (the Acquisitive Marchesa), Giulia Farnese ('la bella', the family asset), Isabella d'Aragona (the Weeping Duchess) and Lucrezia Borgia (the Virtuous Fury). The men play a secondary role in this grand saga; whenever possible the action will be seen through the eyes our eight heroines.
These eight women experienced great riches, power and the warm smile of fortune, but they also knew banishment, poverty, the death of a husband or the loss of one or more of their children. As each of the chosen heroines comes to the fore in her turn, she is handed the baton by her 'sister' and Leonie Frieda recounts the role each woman played in the hundred-year drama that is THE DEADLY SISTERHOOD.
Release date: April 2nd 2013
Swedish by birth, but educated in Britain, Germany and France, Leonie Frieda speaks five languages. Her researches on Catherine de Medici has taken her to Paris, Florence and Rome, as well as the châteaux of the Loire. Her next book is a biography of the Great War soldier and letter-writer Edward Horner. She lives in London with her daughter Elisabeth and son Jake.
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Tags: giveaways, historical fiction, renaissance, исторический роман, контест, эпоха возрождения | 12 comments
April New Book Releases I'm Dying To Read
Friday, March 29, 2013 | Posted by kara-karina@Nocturnal Book Reviews
Tags: 2013, april, new releases, paranormal romance, steampunk, urban fantasy, YA, апрель, городское фэнтези, новые книги, паранормал, стимпанк | 13 comments
Paranormal Romance Review: Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost
Thursday, March 28, 2013 | Posted by kara-karina@Nocturnal Book Reviews
Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost (Night Prince #2)
Synopsis from Goodreads
Dating the Prince of Darkness has its challenges...
Leila's psychic abilities have been failing her, and now she isn't sure what the future holds. If that weren't enough, her lover, Vlad, has been acting distant. Though Leila is a mere mortal, she's also a modern woman who refuses to accept the cold shoulder treatment forever–especially from the darkly handsome vampire who still won't admit that he loves her.
Like choosing between eternal love and a loveless eternity...
Soon circumstances send Leila back to the carnival circuit, where tragedy strikes. And when she finds herself in the crosshairs of a killer who may be closer than she realizes, Leila must decide who to trust– the fiery vampire who arouses her passions like no other or the tortured knight who longs to be more than a friend? With danger stalking her every step of the way, all it takes is one wrong move to damn her for eternity.
Amazon US/UK | Amazon kindle US($6.45)/UK(£4.49) | The Book Depository US/UK
* * *This was absolutely fabulous and utterly delicious! What a contrast with Once Burned, which for me just fell flat when I read it last year.
Tags: 9/10, jeaniene frost, paranormal romance, vampires, вампиры, паранормальный роман | 8 comments
Military Sci-Fi Review: A Soldier's Duty by Jean Johnson
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | Posted by kara-karina@Nocturnal Book Reviews
A Soldier's Duty by Jean Johnson ( Theirs Not to Reason Why #1)
won from Kimba The Caffeinated Book Reviewer
Synopsis from Goodreads
...What if you could see the future? What if you foresaw that, three hundred years from your time, your entire galaxy would be destroyed in an overwhelming invasion? What would you do to stop it, when it would all happen long after you were dead and gone?
These are the questions that Ia must face, and the obstacles she must overcome. Spurred by her teenaged visions of an apocalyptic future, the young heavyworlder woman seeks to set up a series of events, a domino-chain of actions and repercussions that will hopefully stop the coming invaders long after her time has passed. But in order to do so, she must enter the military and engage in a four-front war: an old, barely contained enemy whose twin goals of galactic conquest and lunch terrify all sane sentients; an ancient foe whose technology vastly outstrips anything the Alliance can fling at it; a fanatic, xenophobic religious movement on her homeworld which Ia dares not stop; and her ongoing battle against Time itself.
If Ia fails, the stars and planets of the Milky Way will cease to exist, and so will the countless lives that depend on them. But the odds of her winning the ultimate battle are very, very small, when even the slightest, most innocent-seeming misstep could domino down through time in the wrong way, and doom untold septillions of sentients to a dark and terrifying fall. Bound by the ice of her duty, burned by the fires of her conscience, driven by what she foresees, Ia must become the herald of death herself:
The soldier known as Bloody Mary.
Amazon US/UK | Amazon kindle US/UK | The Book Depository US/UK
* * *Guys, gals, this book is AWESOME. The scope, the sheer complexity of it all is on par with Dune.
I have to admit straight away, this is not a book for everyone and my 10 out of 10 is highly subjective because I personally grew up with reading and rereading Dune, and gobbling up extremely popular military sci-fi in Russia for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
This is like a blast from the past.
Tags: 10/10, jean johnson, military, sci-fi, армейская, научная фантастика | 8 comments
Urban Fantasy Review: Death's Rival by Faith Hunter
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | Posted by kara-karina@Nocturnal Book Reviews
Death's Rival by Faith Hunter (Jane Yellowrock #5)
Synopsis from Goodreads
Jane Yellowrock is a shapeshifting skinwalker you don't want to cross—especially if you're one of the undead…For a vampire killer like Jane, having Leo Pellisier as a boss took some getting used to. But now, someone is out to take his place as Master Vampire of the city of New Orleans, and is not afraid to go through Jane to do it. After an attack that's tantamount to a war declaration, Leo knows his rival is both powerful and vicious, but Leo's not about to run scared. After all, he has Jane. But then, a plague strikes, one that takes down vampires and makes their masters easy prey.
Now, to uncover the identity of the vamp who wants Leo's territory, and to find the cause of the vamp-plague, Jane will have to go to extremes…and maybe even to war.
Amazon US/UK(£4.56) | Amazon kindle US | The Book Depository US/UK
* * *
This was another absolutely fabulous addition to Jane Yellowrock urban fantasy series. Even better than the previous couple of books. You know why?
There was an edge of desperation to Jane, and like with all the predators it only made her so much more lethal. I loved this book in all its savage wonders!
Tags: 9/10, faith hunter, indian mythology, shifters, skinwalker, urban fantasy, vampires, вампиры, городское фэнтези, оборотни | 8 comments
MG Fantasy Early Review: Emilie and The Hollow World by Martha Wells
Monday, March 25, 2013 | Posted by kara-karina@Nocturnal Book Reviews
Emilie and The Hollow World by Martha Wells
ARC thanks to Strange Chemistry
Synopsis from Goodreads
While running away from home for reasons that are eminently defensible, Emilie's plans to stow away on the steamship Merry Bell and reach her cousin in the big city go awry, landing her on the wrong ship and at the beginning of a fantastic adventure.
Taken under the protection of Lady Marlende, Emilie learns that the crew hopes to use the aether currents and an experimental engine, and with the assistance of Lord Engal, journey to the interior of the planet in search of Marlende's missing father.
With the ship damaged on arrival, they attempt to traverse the strange lands on their quest. But when evidence points to sabotage and they encounter the treacherous Lord Ivers, along with the strange race of the sea-lands, Emilie has to make some challenging decisions and take daring action if they are ever to reach the surface world again.
Release date: April 2nd 2013.
Amazon US/UK | Amazon kindle US| The Book Depository US/UK(£4.98) | Fishpond
* * *I haven't read anything by Martha Wells before and you know that Strange Chemistry titles usually are hit or miss for me, and yet, Emilie and The Hollow World was just as delightful and refreshing as Pantomime.
Tags: 8.5/10, adventure, fantasy, martha wells, middle grade, миддл-грэйд, приключения, фэнтэзи | 6 comments
The Postman Knock #24
Sunday, March 24, 2013 | Posted by kara-karina@Nocturnal Book Reviews
Alright, peeps! How is things with you?
I am still really really busy, but at least I've slept well this week. :)
Still no sign of spring here, and I am certainly fed up with the permanent winter, but at least managed to have a great book haul this week again!
WOLF NIGHT was giggle worthy, funny and smart read. Don't let the cover put you off. It's excellent. THE QUEEN IS DEAD continued really strong urban fantasy/steampunk of the future series, which I'd recommend to any fan of Patricia Briggs with absolutely no reservations. EMILIE AND THE HOLLOW WORLD was a little bit on the younger side, more middle grade than YA fantasy, but still adventurous and lovely. At last, WICKED AS SHE WANTS I absolutely devoured, it was so delicious. Definitely, a recommended guilty pleasure. Oh my, it was hot! Caspar was something else...
I also want to draw your attention to a thought-provoking post from Karina Cooper on genre wars and somewhat echoing it post from Kimba The Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
I also want to draw your attention to a thought-provoking post from Karina Cooper on genre wars and somewhat echoing it post from Kimba The Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
I can't believe this was on READ NOW on Netgalley!
I read Throne by Phil Tucker last year and really enjoyed it, so when he asked if I could review his vampire novel, I said yes straight away. Love this striking cover although the typography needs work. Thank you, Phil!
It actually didn't cost me anything because I applied gift certificate to this. Nevertheless, this is a book I've wanted to read for ages.
Here you go, this is my lot. How was yours?
I will be away for most of May so if anyone: bloggers/authors/readers looking for a guest post, I'll be more than happy to accommodate!
Happy Sunday! Ciao!
Tags: bookshelf, music, the postman knock, книжная полка, музыка | 14 comments
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In case of zombie apocalypse
Hey, guys! I feel like I should say this just in case :)
If you'd like to sponsor a fellow book addict who sometimes can't sleep at night worrying that she won't have enough books to read if internet goes down in the event of zombie apocalypse (I'm convinced it's one of the top five ways to go for human race) you can donate through Paypal to olivesandacorns at gmail dot com or buy a book through any of the links provided with my reviews which will send me a small percentage from the sale. All proceeds will go towards my enormous TBR. I will also shelter you on the remote farm in Portugal when zombie apocalypse starts provided you survive getting there. There will be books, yay?
Thank you! Love you all
If you'd like to sponsor a fellow book addict who sometimes can't sleep at night worrying that she won't have enough books to read if internet goes down in the event of zombie apocalypse (I'm convinced it's one of the top five ways to go for human race) you can donate through Paypal to olivesandacorns at gmail dot com or buy a book through any of the links provided with my reviews which will send me a small percentage from the sale. All proceeds will go towards my enormous TBR. I will also shelter you on the remote farm in Portugal when zombie apocalypse starts provided you survive getting there. There will be books, yay?
Thank you! Love you all
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